OverallGood

Our inspector's description of this service

The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, North Yorkshire was one of two acute hospitals forming South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It served a rural population of 122,000 people.

It served an area of 1,000 square miles extending from the North Yorkshire moors to the central Pennines, the borders of York district in the south and the borders of Darlington in the north.

Around 1,100 staff are employed on the Friarage site which provides approximately 160 beds. The Friarage Hospital provided medical, surgical, critical care, maternity, children and young people’s services for people across the Hambleton and Richmondshire area. The hospital also provided urgent and emergency services (A&E) and outpatient services.

Inspection ratings

We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:

Outstanding – the service is performing exceptionally well.

Good – the service is performing well and meeting our expectations.

Requires improvement – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Inadequate – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service.

No rating/under appeal/rating suspended – there are some services which we can’t rate, while some might be under appeal from the provider. Suspended ratings are being reviewed by us and will be published soon.

Ticks and crosses

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There's no need for the service to take further action. If this service has not had a CQC inspection since it registered with us, our judgement may be based on our assessment of declarations and evidence supplied by the service.

The service must make improvements.

At least one standard in this area was not being met when we inspected the service and we have taken enforcement action.